CENTENNIAL, Colo. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — April 28, 2015 —
Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:
ARW) today announced that it has joined
Linaro Ltd., the not-for-profit engineering organization that
consolidates and optimizes open-source software for ARM applications.
Arrow is the first Linaro collaborator with both hardware-design and
distribution capabilities.

“Arrow is excited to bring its best-in-class design engineering
services, comprehensive product offerings and unparalleled global supply
chain relationships to Linaro’s open-source community,” said Aiden
Mitchell, vice president of semiconductor marketing for Arrow. “Arrow is
always thinking five years out to help guide innovation forward, and
joining Linaro is very much in line with that mission. We look forward
to working with the Linaro community to accelerate the pace of
innovation for the ARM processor market.”

Arrow will collaborate with its supplier and manufacturer network to
design a range of standardized, open-source boards for the Linaro
96boards.org community. These low-cost, high-performance hardware
designs would be accessible to an even greater number of software
developers, as well as the maker community and embedded product
manufacturers—effectively widening the pool of ARM innovators,
accelerating the pace of their architecture innovations and reducing
their time to market.

“96Boards is building a single software and hardware community across
low-cost development boards based on ARM Cortex-A processors from
multiple silicon vendors,” said Rob Booth, Linaro chief operating
officer. “Ensuring reliable hardware production and distribution is key
to developing this community and we're confident that Arrow joining as
the first 96Boards Manufacturing Distributor Partner will accelerate
this initiative.”

Linaro facilitates rapid industry innovation by using shared resources
to engineer common software elements for the ARM architecture. This
collaborative approach enables Linaro members to focus more of their own
resources on product differentiation and innovation. The full scope of
Linaro’s engineering work is open to all online.

About Arrow Electronics

Arrow Electronics (
www.arrow.com)
is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial
and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing
solutions. Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than
100,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and
commercial customers through a global network of more than 460 locations
in 56 countries.

About Linaro

Linaro is the place where engineers from the world’s leading technology
companies define the future of open source on ARM. The company is a
not-for-profit engineering organization with over 200 engineers working
on consolidating and optimizing open source software for the ARM
architecture, including developer tools, the Linux kernel, ARM power
management, and other software infrastructure. Linaro is distribution
neutral: it wants to provide the best software foundations to everyone
by working upstream, and to reduce non-differentiating and costly low
level fragmentation. The effectiveness of the Linaro approach has been
demonstrated by Linaro’s growing membership, and by Linaro consistently
being listed as one of the top three company contributors to recent
Linux kernels. For more information, visit
www.linaro.org.